1/ Tom Wolfe bio of Noyce brightboys.org/PDF/Wolfe_Noyc is worth re-reading alongside Tad Friend bio of newyorker.com/magazine/2015/
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2/ Both hammer home point that SV owes more to Midwestern tinkering tradition than to more storied Bay Area counterculture influence
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3/ I'd even argue that counterculture was consequence, not cause. Why?
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4/ At a magnet for internal (and today, global) migration from regions where people don't fit in, you're forced to live with very diff folks
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5/ The "Counterculture --> tech hub" is flawed for the same reason Richard Florida's "cultural scene--> innovation" is flawed.
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6/ While a chicken-egg local amplifier can set in later, the boot-up is never due to "culture"
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8/ And if for whatever reason, they can't come to SV (high rental costs, visa issues) can SV go to them via VR/Skype/Slack/Github/SO?
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